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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

'WILLIAM H. PORTER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y. ASSIGNOR TO TIIE AIR LIGHTER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

NESTING GAS-TIPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 612,055, dated October 11, 1898.

Application iiled March 13, 1896. Serial No. 583,093. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: other, and in this way a pile or stick of tips Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. PORTER, a of any length maybe made, and which in this citizen of the United States, residing in the form may be placed in a box o r other recepcity, county, and State of New York, have intacle, and which may be sent by mail without 5 vented certain new and useful Improvements injury to the catalytic material, even when 55 in Nesting Gas-Tips, of which the following the fibers thereof are of a rather delicate charis a specification. l acter.

This invention relates to catalytic gas-tips While the piles of sticks are normally someand to means whereby to produce packages what rigid, they can be bent by the applicato thereof, which may be stored and shipped tion of only moderate pressure, and the con- 6o without danger of injury to the catalyticimanection between the tips'may therefore be deterial. scribed as semirigid. Each tip iits over tne In catalytic gas-tips or attachments theredome of the subjacent tip only tight enough to there is combined with each tip a small to retain its place, and so that it can be re- I 5 portion of catalytic igniting material which is moved without jarring or shaking. A tight 65 liable to be displaced or injured in handling iit would be neither desirable nor permissible. or during transportation by the contact of the In Fig. 3, E indicates the cap covering the tips one with the other or with other articles dome and the catalytic material of the last or substances, and when the articles arenot tip of the pile or stick, and which cap maybe 2o handled but are unpacked, if stored where of metal, paper, wood, or any other suitable 7o dust can get access thereto, the catalytic mamaterial. terial may become coated and its qualities im- Piles or sticks of gas-tips made as above paired. To avoid such results, I so construct may be packed in boxes like lead-pencils, so the tips in any suitable manner, form, or prothat in addition to the safety secured it is 25 portions that each tip may constitute a cap possible to introduce a greater number of 75 and protector for the upper portion of an.- catalytic tips of this kind into a receptacle other, the tips being arranged one upon the than of the ordinary so-called lava tips. other and the outermost covered by a cap, as Preferably the gas-tip to be best capable of fully set forth hereinafter and as shown in packing, as above, must be possessed of a 3o the accompanying drawings, in whichcertain amount of elasticity, and therefore 8o Figure l represents a vertical section of a may consist of metal, preferably aluminium catalytic gas-tip, showing one form in which or steel. it is made. Fig. 2 represents in section two Y In the construction shown in Fig. t the gas-tips, of which the base of the one surbase A is cylindrical and the upper end is con- 3 5 rounds the dome of the other, forminga seniitracted to form a boss onto which may t the 85 rigid connection. Fig. 3 represents in seclower end of the base of another tip. In this tion a pile or stick of six gas-tips, the topcase the tip is perforated instead of slit, the most being protected by a cap; Fig. 4, a secperforations being made in a block e', of lava tion showing a modification. or other material, secured in the upper end of 4o In the several figures the same letters repthe base. 9o resent the same parts. A single gas-tip may also be protected by a In Fig-1, A represents the base of the tip, cap, as described, and which serves as apro- B the dome, and O the catalytic material tection in the handling or shipping of single which causes the ignition of the illuminatingtips, and this embodies my invention. 45 gas when the latter is turned on. In such a What I claim istip the diameter of the base is so proportioned 1. A catalytic gas-tip having a shoulder and as to make the latter fit accurately around a base, the inner diameter or shape of the the dome, resting against the shoulder D. base being proportioned to tit the exterior di- By this construction of the parts the base of ameter or shape of the shoulder, whereby the 5o one tip may be placed over the dome of anbase of one such tip maybe fitted as a cap to roo having a shoulder, the base of one tip fitting removably around the dome of the tip below and resting against its shoulder, the upper tip being provided with a cap, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speciiication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM II. PORTER.

IVitnesses:

JOHN T. EAsToN, CHARLES V. PoLLooK. 

